The Terror Bird in ARK: Survival Evolved is a fast, aggressive, and carnivorous bird that cannot fly due to its stunted wings, but is all the faster on foot. Tamed in packs, they’re particularly effective at killing off other players or creatures or at least doing some real damage and annoying.
Check out our Terror Bird guide for everything you need to know about the bird. But also how to catch him, tame him, feed him, and breed offspring too.
This is the Terror Bird in ARK: Survival Evolved
Appearance: The Terror Bird is one of the smaller carnivores in Ark, ranging in size from 8 to 15 feet. In addition, this bird has rather stunted “wings” that it uses to help itself land if it falls off a cliff. But he can’t really fly with it. In contrast to its wings, its legs are large and muscular. The Terror Bird’s appearance is rounded off by its large beak, which converges into a hook at the tip.
Wild: Terror Birds are pack animals that usually travel in packs of three to four individuals. They attack everything in their field of vision. You will often only notice them if they attack you at once. Because of its speed, the Terror Bird is super annoying as a wild animal as they really come from anywhere, anytime.
Domesticated: You can use it as a fast mount that you can even ride armed. However, it is most effective in a tamed pack, where absolutely everything can be destroyed.
How to tame the Terror Bird in ARK
This is how you hunt the Terror Bird: Since the Terror Bird often travels in packs, you should arrest your Terror Bird with a bola or bear trap and kill the others, or arrest and tame them as well.
Once you’ve pinned him down, keep shooting him until he’s unconscious.
Important: If you see a Terror Bird alone and incapacitate it, keep in mind that its pack can still be nearby and attack you at any time. So always keep an eye on the surroundings.
How to tame them: Once he’s unconscious, put meat or kibble in his inventory and feed him that. To keep the Terror Bird down and the Stun up, it’s best to use the Narcotic or Narcoberries. The Terror Bird’s stun value goes down pretty quickly, so be prepared.
How to make the Terror Bird saddle
To craft the Terror Saddle, you need to be level 30 and 15 engram points to unlock the recipe. You now need the following resources to craft:
- 110x Hide
- 65x Fiber
- 20x Wood
How to feed a Terror Bird eats in ARK
Once you have tamed your Terror Bird, it is important to know what it likes to eat. Terror Birds are carnivores, which of course makes the choice of food easier.
- Regular Kibble:
- Ingredients: 1x Medium Egg, 1x Cooked Meat Jerky, 5x Fibers, 2x Longrass, 2x Savoroot 1x Water
- Ingredients Cooked Meat Jerky: 1x Cooked Meat, 1x Oil, 3x Sparkpowder
- Kibble (Gallimimus Egg):
- Ingredients: 1x Gallimimus Egg, 1x Cooked Meat Jerky, 1x Savoroot, 2x Mejoberry, 3x Fiber, 1x w
Water - Ingredients Cooked Meat Jerky: 1x Cooked Meat, 1x Oil, 3x Sparkpowder
- Ingredients: 1x Gallimimus Egg, 1x Cooked Meat Jerky, 1x Savoroot, 2x Mejoberry, 3x Fiber, 1x w
- Raw Mutton:
- Received by gutting Ovis.
- Cooking turns it into the Cooked Lamb Chop
- Raw Prime Meat:
- Gained when gutting larger creatures
- Cooking turns it into Cooked Prime Meat
- Raw Prime Fish Meat:
- Obtained from Alpha Mosasaurus, Dunkleosteus, Electrophorus, Leedsichtys, Megalodon, and Sabertooth Salmon
- Cooking turns it into the Cooked Prime Fish Meat
- Raw Meat:
- Earned by gutting a creature
- Cooking turns it into Cooked Meat
- Raw Fish Meat:
- Received from gutting fish
- Cooking turns it into Cooked Fish Meat
How to breed the Terror Bird in ARK
This is how you prepare the breeding: If you have a male and female specimen, you build an enclosure that is large enough at best. Put both dinos in the pen and set them to “wander” via the command menu. Alternatively, you can also switch directly to “Pair”, but then there must always be a player nearby, otherwise the pairing will stop due to the rendering.
The breeding interval of a Terror Bird is 18 to 48 hours.
How to Hatch Eggs: When you get a fertilized Terrorbird Egg from a successful mating, hatching begins. For this, the ambient temperature of the egg should be between 20 °C and 28 °C and in the egg incubator at 24 °C. According to standard settings, the little Terror Bird Baby hatches after about 2 hours. After that, it takes about 4.5 hours of your attention, during which you keep putting food in its inventory.
Once it gains juvenile status, it can feed from troughs on its own. The entire ripening time lasts about 1 day and 22.5 hours.
Beginner tips on breeding in ARK can be found here:
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